Those spreading vitriol
A letter from Amnesty UK:
It’s funny, in a way, that Nscribble first says that AmnestyUK stands against “those spreading hate” and then immediately mentions misleading and confusing people as a common tactic against their human rights campaigns. Poor befuddled Nscribble doesn’t seem to grasp that accusing gender critical feminists of “spreading hate” is itself misleading and confusing, or to put it more crisply, a lie.
Then Nscribble accuses the gender critical feminist side of “spreading vitriol or misinformation,” which is also misleading and confusing, not to mention vituperative and unfair. Then Nscribble brushes aside the very idea that labeling us vitriolic liars might be part of an attempt to remove or weaken our political representation.
And yet, of course, that kind of abusive rhetoric is removing and weakening our political representation, day in and day out. It’s what’s been happening these past ten years or so: calling us names, lying about what we think and what we’re campaigning for, summoning troops to amplify the names and the lies. It’s been working brilliantly from their point of view – we’ve lost jobs, lost friends, lost networks, and even been arrested and interrogated. Yes, oddly enough, that does have an impact on our political voice.
And then, insanely, Nscribble tells us there’s no such thing as a female body.
We’re standing on a tiny island and chunks of it are falling into the sea every hour. Sharks are circling.
Whenever I encounter the “no such thing as a biologically female/male body” notion I marvel that dairy farming must be even more challenging than I had imagined. I had the simplistic notion that penis vs udders were reliable indicators of bull vs cow. But if the biological body gives no clue?
The insistence on ridiculous lies is the hallmark of any serious religion. And this religion is like the others in positing humans as something special, separate from the natural order of things, more than the meat and blood and bone that make us up. The mental contortions required to accede to this dogma threaten to obliterate one’s very hold on reality itself, which in a way is kind of the point — the religion as such, as an organism in the environment of our minds, insists that we interface with reality only through its tenets.
It’s just remarkable how successful it’s been in capturing the levers of power.
“Unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” — Philip K. Dick
Indeed, Durch. Anyone who parrots the line that biological sex isn’t real should be invited to milk a bull.
“There is no such thing as a biologically female/male body” – file this one alongside “Earth was created and is no more than 10,000 years old”. Also, “We stand over the letter” – who writes like this?
So is there sufficient reason to support AA at this point?
Holms, I noticed that as well. Sometimes I find oddities like that in my writing – usually I catch it on first edit and out it goes. I edit almost everything I write, though sometimes I don’t find everything, that’s natural. But an error that blatant? It suggests either sloppiness and lack of editing, or ignorance.
I noticed it and sniggered. Someone was half-remembering “we stand with” and translated it into standing over…a letter. The jargon of social media “politics” strikes again.
Jeff @ 6 – Yes probably. Nothing is perfect, so sometimes one just has to hold one’s nose and support anyway.